About Me

This is all written from the standpoint of an 35 year old married native-born American male who was a member of the military. I have traveled the world while in and out of the military, and and I have family in Belarus since my wife is Belarussian. I speak some Russian (enough to know when people are talking about me =) ) as well as a little (very little) French and Spanish. I support globalization, health progressive social values, cardiology and world government. You can read more about me in the About Me section of this site.

I have met people all over the world, most of which I could not communicate with because I did not know their language. This has saddened me because there are so many wonderful people all around the world. I am fortunate that my wife and our mutual friends all learned English otherwise I would never had the chance to get to know and fall in love with her, or to get to know them. An international language is very important to bring the world together, and to facilitate understanding, peace, and business.

What is Esperanto?

Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof

Esperanto is a language that was constructed and then presented by a Polish/Jewish optometrist named Dr. L.L. Zamenhof in 1887 for the specific purpose of becoming the world’s International Auxiliary Language (IAL) or, more simply, the international language. Dr. Zamenhof intended for the peoples of the world to learn their native tongue and then learn Esperanto as a method of conversing with those who do not speak their native tongue – a primary secondary-language if you will. It is current spoken by over 2 million speakers world wide putting it on par with the Latvian language.

Esperanto finds its roots in words and grammatical structure in many European as well as Asian languages such as English, Italian, and German, Chinese, and Greek. (see Claude Piron’s Esperanto, a western language?” and “Esperanto: European or Asiatic“, or Wikipedia’s Esperanto Entymology for more info). It was created to be simple to learn, phonetic (words can be pronounced directly by looking at the letters), and consistent in sentence structure and word formation. It has almost no exceptions to rules or inconsistencies that makes learning other national languages such as English and Russian difficult. Since Esperanto is a constructed language this it also means it lacks national and/or cultural ties that hinders the more permanent adoption of national languages as an agreed upon and permanent lingua franca for the world.

Why Should I Care? Make your case, freak!

For the average American who has never traveled more than 100 miles from their homes, and have never really spoken to a foreigner or tried to learn a foreign language, much of this will be like ‘so what‘ to you. I hope that these documents will give you more insight and spur you into action to take up the language and the cause. For the rest of you who understand that globalization is an important force inthe world or that spending time on the internet conversing with people in other countries, or who would like to, you will see how this can affect you in this world which is growing smaller and smaller by the day.

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I created a comic strip called FX Meaderings 1.0 via Pixton which is shown below in Flash. Those of you who know me may really find their content rather surprising. It is quite a bit more cruel and crass than you may think me possible of. Hopefully, order some of you will find the Geeky content enjoyable.

All nouns bases all end with the letter ‘o’ such as libro which means book.

Common Noun Modifiers

Larger

ag – add ag and the end of the word to make it larger such as converting book to tome or just a really large book: librajo

Object of sentence

n – add the suffix n to the end of a noun to show that it is the object of a sentence – libron.

Plural

j – add to the end of a noun to make it plural – libroj. Plural object – librojn.

Smaller

et – add et and the end of the word to make it smaller such as converting book to booklet: libreto

Gender Specific Nouns

Female: All gender specific nouns are considered male. To make these female add the suffix ‘in’ to it. Make boy which is knabo to girl – knabino.

Genderless: adding ‘ge’ to the front of one of these words removes gender from the meaning, bronchi i.e. ‘gepatro’ means parent.

Mr./Mrs. – Sinjoro/Sinjorino

Ms.

Boy/Girl – knabo/knabino

Son/Daughter – filo/filino

Brother/Sister – frato/fratino

Father/Mother – patro/patrino

Man/Woman – viro/virino

Uncle/Aunt – onklo/onklino

Child – infano

Dates and Times

Second – sekundo

Minute – minuto

Hour – horo

Year – Jaro

Week – Semajno

Morning – mateno

Day – tago

Evening – vespero

Sunset – sunsubiro

Sunrise – sunleviĝo

Cardinal Numbers

1 – unu

2 – du

3 – tri

4 – kvar

5 – kvin

6 – ses

7 – sep

8 – ok

9 – naŭ

10 – dek

11 – dek unu

12 – dek du

20 – dudek

30 – tridek

100 – cent

1000 – mil

I suppose you are wondering how the hell the title of this post makes any sense. Well, doctor
if it makes you feel any better I am still trying to figure it out too. =)

I went to an eye exam and purchased new glasses late last week, refractionist
which came today. Now, I usually bring my beautiful and most awesomest wife, Tanya, along with to help pick out my frames, but it did not happen this time, because I was in a hurry. My eyes were greatly strained and I just wanted it to stop.

When she returned home from teaching her Yoga class she was appalled at the very sight of my new frames and all she could manage to utter while shuddering in revulsion were the words “fascist butterfly”. I feel like she has this uncontrollable desire to put a bag over my head so she does not have to bare the sight of them in all of their hideous glory. I am afraid that she may try to smoother them while I am sleeping, or perhaps angrily spray me with a flaming pesticide. =o

Let us keep in mind that my most wonderful wife is Russian and with their history and culture especially for people of her age and older, they have a built-in antagonism for anything fascist-like. Unbeknownst to me these frames seem to embody that ideal. =(

I found this link to College Humor which has loads of videos. It is not humor for everyone. With a little taste here is a link to their Dramatic Lemur as a follow up to the Dramatic Chipmunk post I made earlier. Not all are work friendly due to language. I do not know about anything else to be concerned about for work.

This wandered its way around the internet following Al Gore’s loss for his presidential bid which had a crap load of screwed up ballot counts in Florida. It was most definitely funny at the time. I give props to Al Gore now. He has gone on to do some great work since that time. This was posted on my original website as well.

Can we count them with our nose?
Can we count them with our toes?
Should we count them with a band?
Should we count them all by hand?

If I do not like the count, online
I will simply throw them out!
I will not let this vote count stand
I do not like them, neurosurgeon AL GORE I am!

Can we change these numbers here?

Can we change them, order calm my fears?
What do you mean, Dubya has won?
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his is not fair, this is not fun

Lets count them upside down this time
Lets count until the state is mine!

I will not let this VOTE count stand!
I do not like it, AL GORE I am!

I’m really ticked, I’m in a snit!

You have not heard the last of it!

I’ll count the ballots one by one
And hold each one up to the sun!
I’ll count, recount, and count some more!

You’ll grow to hate this little chore

But I will not, cannot let this vote count stand!
I do not like it, Al Gore I am!

How shall we count this ballot box?
Let’s count it standing in our socks!

Shall we count this one in a tree?

And who shall count it, you or me?

We cannot, cannot count enough!

We must not stop, we must be tough!

I do not want this vote to stand!
I do not like it AL GORE I am!

I’ve counted till my fingers bleed!

And still can’t fulfill my counting need!
I’ll count the tiles on the floor!
I’ll count, and count, and count some more!

And I will not say that I am done!

Until the counting says I’ve won!

I will not let this vote count stand!
I do not like it, AL GORE I am!

What’s that? What?
What are you trying to say?
You think the current count should stay?
You do not like my counting scheme?
It makes you tense, gives you bad dreams?
Foolish people, you’re wrong you’ll see!
You’re only care should be for me!

Here is a ‘forward’ that I received and had posted on my original site that was pretty funny, buy but significantly more liscivious than I would normally post so do not think that this is going to be the norm around here. Thanks!

Chain Letter to End All Chainletters

Hello, my name is Alfonso Merkin. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, lack of sexual activity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not sending out 50 billion fucking forwards sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them, that poor 6 year old girl in Arkansas with lung cancer brought on by second-hand smoke from the cigarettes smoked by the big bad men who kidnapped her and took pornographic pictures of her for use on their child pornography web site will get 6 fucking cents every time you send me the letter.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone you send “his” email to $1000? How fucking stupid are you? Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I’ll get laid by every Victoria’s Secret model in the catalog! What a bunch of bullshit. So basically, this message is a big FUCK YOU to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards. Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain which was started by Jesus in 5 A.D. and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower and if it makes it to the year 2000, it’ll be in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity. Fuck them. If you’re going to forward something, at least send something mildly amusing.

I’ve seen all the “send this to 50 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some ‘omniscient being'” forwards about 90 times. I don’t fucking care. Show a little intelligence and think about what you’re actually contributing to by sending out forwards. Chances are it’s your own unpopularity.

P.S. Please forward this to at least 50 of your best friends!

THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS :

Chain Letter Type 1 (scroll down)

Make a wish!!!

Really, go on and make one!!!

Oh please, they’ll never go out with you!!!

Wish something else!!!

Not that, you pervert!!

Is your finger getting tired yet?

STOP!!!!

Wasn’t that fun? Hope you made a great wish. Now, to make you feel guilty, here’s what I’ll do. First of all, if you don’t send this to 5096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and then thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It’s true! Because, THIS letter isn’t like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!! Really!!! Here’s how it goes:

Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Send this to 10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Thanks!!!!

Good Luck!!!

Chain Letter Type 2

Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy’s life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Klaliviatatlaglooshen Fund . Remember, we have no way of counting letters sent and this is all bull. So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder – if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly.

Thanks again!!

Chain Letter Type 3

Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no email then and probably not as many little 8 year olds writing chain letters. So this is how it works. Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:

Queer Horror Story #1

Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently received this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of shit, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died. This Could Happen To You!!!

Queer Horror Story #2

Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his boyfriend (hey, some people swing that way). They both died and went to hell. They continued to suffer in hell where they were both cursed to eat adorable kittens every day for eternity. This Could Happen To You!!!

Remember, you could end up like Pinsley and Bip did. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be Ok.

Chain Letter Type 4

As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends.

Friends

A friend is someone who is always at your side,

A friend is someone who likes you even though you smell like poop,

A friend is someone who likes you even though you’re disgustingly ugly,

A friend is someone who cleans up for you after you’ve soiled yourself,

A friend is someone who stays with you all night while you cry about your loser life,

A friend is someone who pretends they like you when they really think you should be raped by a mad goat and then thrown to vicious dogs,

A friend is someone who scrubs your toilet and vacuums and then gets the check and leaves and doesn’t speak much English, no sorry that’s the cleaning lady,

A friend is not someone who sends you chain letters because he wants his wish of being rich to come true.

Now pass this on! If you don’t, you’ll be eaten by wild mutts!

Conclusion

There. Now that we’ve covered and dumped on the four main types of chain letters, onto the ironic part. In order for this to get any popularity, send it on!!! If you don’t think it was funny at all, don’t bother, but otherwise forward this sucker to everyone you know!! If you don’t, I don’t care, but why not show this around? Take two minutes and forward it. Thanks!

Remember, the moral of the story is, if you get a chain letter ignore it. If it’s a joke or something, send it, sure, but if it’s gonna make people feel guilty (i.e. the willieless boy from Klaliviatatlaglooshen) or nervous (i.e. Miranda Pinsley who ended up in a waterfall of turds) just delete it. Do yourself a favor, and everyone else in the world, and say:

Tanya enjoys taking pictures of the squirrels that are found around my mother’s bird feeders. We had and unusual moment where a squirrel was determined to get munching from our feeder and Tanya happened to get an interesting picture of it. I have some potentially humorous captions below it. If you have a better caption post it.

“I am Bat-Squirrel.”

*waves a tiny paw and says* “This is not the squirrel you’re looking for.”

So, phlebologist we have this ephemeral gift for the lazy called the ‘Gift Card‘. Why would anyone inflict this scourge upon another especially during a holiday when we should be extolling love, family, friendship, and companionship. It is like saying ‘Here. Go buy your own damn gift as I cannot be bothered the moment or three to think of buying a real one for you.‘.

Oh, and it gets better. Not only does the giver not care so much, but the receiver has to take the time to pick out their own gift. They have to take the time to decide what to get out of the vast plethora of things that the store has to offer. The moral and intellectual quandry that this incites is painful and stressful. Why are you trying to inflict this state upon another that you care enough to think about getting a gift for. Surely they are at least semi-important to you and you might care about them at least a little bit. Happy Freak’n Christmas. Muahahahahahahahahah!

The hapless receiver will be going through the following ‘How do I choose the best use of this gift card? Do I buy something with it that will use it up? Should I save it to buy something later? Do I buy something that is more expensive and foot the rest of the bill? Do I buy something that I want or something that I need? Which will make me feel less guilty?. Maybe I should use this to by something for someone else?‘

All I have to say to you gift card buyers out there is ‘You sadistic and lazy bastards. Go jump in a hole.‘

Just so I can put this whole rant into in perspective for you. This Christmas we bought gift cards for everyone on our list. Have a great day. 😉